Persist in support of the troops!
As I commented at Steve Benen’s blog, in response to his latest on the vile insults of our troops by Rush Limbaugh:
I was an early responder, possibly the first to call for a Congressional censure of Limbaugh, and certainly the first to ask others to contact their representatives with demands to do so.
But the bigger question is whether the effort to censure gets sustained till it reaches a floor vote. I believe we should push for it daily until it does.
Here’s the questions I now put to Congress:
1) if you censor an advocacy organization for its personal critique of a general, do you plan to do so to counter a critic of soldiers of lesser rank? If not, I can only presume that supporting the troops means ’supporting commanding generals’ and you really do not give a whit about the men and women in the front lines, risking their lives.
2) What message do you plan to send to those troops and to all our younger citizens you intend to recruit for military service?
To everyone else, I hope you ask similar questions when you contact your Reps and Senators today.
